Absolutely!
(Thanks for the input)
I do have couple of questions to help me better understand....
Do text links cary more weight than banner links with respect to search engines? or was there some other reason.
The onsite links were to justify those same words in the keyword section of the meta tags, my thinking was to keep from being seen as spamming the meta tag keywords, I needed to link those words to the various sections of the site.... (is this not a good idea?)
dsdemmin, Thank you again for taking your time to help us all with our sites!